1: Why Do We Write?
We Write because writing is like the atom bomb, like a look at just the right moment or the right thing said at just the perfect moment, it is merely lines on a piece of paper
just letters on a screen but each word carries the power to change the world in ways unimagined.
What’s More Powerful: A Bullet Or A Word?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many pictures is a word worth? Words are the actors, props, lighting, directive, and the soundtrack to the theater of your mind,
and it only takes an instrument that can permanently mark a surface, said surface and the guts to forever mark it, for writing to begin, formal education and experience not required
2: Why Stories And Opinion Pieces?
Okay, Stories first: because narrative is primarily how we humans assimilate information, it’s how we come to understand the vast and truly overwhelm complexity of the world we live in.
Think of your earliest memory, what was the light frequency of the top you were wearing? What range were you speaking in?
okay, at least tell me the measurements of the left wall from the door in the room you were in, no? nothing?
notice how you can’t speak to any factual details pertaining to most of your memories? Have you ever listened to a friend, lover or family member tell a story about you and you just sat there thinking to yourself “there is no way in hell that could’ve been me“?
that’s because our minds don’t care much about individual details and facts, it’s only concerned with how those details and facts tied to the main point, how they flow from and into one another i.e. the story
it’s how our brains have stored information for eons, from 5-year-old’s to tech genius, across races, languages, religions, across time itself, the story, that’s how our deeper mind listen and remember, so that is the language we speak
Now opinion pieces, even as you were reading the last paragraph, what were you thinking, feeling? Did you agree, disagree, agree with some but not with others? Ever asked yourself why that is?!
That is because your mind is constantly orientating you with the world around you, but at the same time it also protects you from any information that might make you think less of yourself (the psychological immune system, essentially) and that is how you start crafting opinions about things you nearly have no facts about or correct perspectives on, and that’s okay, as they say, “opinions are like farts, everyone has them”, or in science it is said “every discovery begins with a hypothesis” i.e. an opinion
our ability to collaborate and bond on levels unheard of in other species, so we see knowledge as a puzzle and almost everyone has a piece in the form of statistics, references, questions, critics, ridicule, facts, studies, experience, etc, and the dialogue ignited by an opinion has almost always been what begins that discussion, that discussion that puts the puzzle together
3: What Story Do We Seek To Tell And What Is Our Opinion?
The Story we seek to tell is that you already are whole, that your happiness, sadness, confidence, insecurities, shame, fears, anxieties, fantasies, desires, joys are uniquely a part of you but you have allowed society, mass media, your friends, family, colleagues, lovers, strangers, so-called guru’s tell you which parts of you are right and which are wrong in almost no uncertain terms, but they are wrong. Now we know you have desires, goals, dreams, that you leave under the pillow when you go to work/school or just go out and that they always come back to you when the noise dies down when the distractions just aren’t loud enough, bright enough or confusing enough to trick your amygdala into giving it your undivided attention, leaving none for your desires
“the hardest part is starting”
But that is only the beginning of your story, and for the longest time you’ve thought that you need to get that perfect first before you begin your journey but what movie, real-life story, series, biography or even cartoon have you ever seen, read or heard of that has a perfect beginning?! The truth is that you have everything you need in you right now, it’s scaringly simple, you already are and have everything you need to move into the next chapter of your life, your story, absolutely everything! Your fear, your shame, your insecurities, all those parts of you you’ve been working so hard and so long to hide, to minimize, to eliminate, have a purpose
Once you start using everything in you, about you, and around you to work for you and not against you, when you actually start letting all these things push you instead of standing in front of you, you begin to move into the next chapter of your story, the part of your movie that always gets scary but exciting, the true path to your greatness
And that is the story we’re seeking to tell, the one of pain, trauma, fear, anxiety, searching, discovering, learning, failing, making mistakes, growing, changing, becoming more… not because you’re inherently not enough, but because you want more, you want to become more, have more, see more, feel more, to truly live this life ’til the wheels fall off, and as the legendary wealth trainer Jim Rohn once said “to have more, you must become more“
Now the opinion pieces are simply that, opinions, they’re made to push you, provoke you, make you laugh, cry, get angry, get sad, giddy, horny, irrational, they’re written to make you want to shout, scream, give thanks, give your thoughts and opinions, but not like with social media, no, these discussions are made to urge you to seek more, more knowledge, more wisdom
This is our journey, it is yours, it is the human race’s, black, white, young, old, African, American, all of us and this may simply be a very small step in truly creating mass change, mass growth, mass fulfillment of potential and life experience but it’ll be the largest small step mankind’s ever seen, the loudest whisper you’ve ever heard, it’ll be thee Manifesto
Thank you for taking the to read this
Please question us, challenge, speak your thoughts, ideas, perspectives, feelings, and we’ll listen, start the conversation, but most importantly, learn to listen, as the Dalai Lama once said “when you speak, you’re only repeating what you know but if you listen, you may learn something“
Arigatou Gozaimasu
Voice Of Mechanics 